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...austere character there is a curious, flamboyant streak. Somewhere along the way he picked up a German officer's suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...
...stepped on the suede foot of the woman behind him, but the "pardon me" got stuck in his throat as he found himself face to face with a yellow sweatered Norma. "Hold hands with me?" he pleaded silently. She didn't. She smiled and asked if he knew Bill Thompson in Kirkland House. Vag did. "Remember me to him, will you? He'll remember me." He didn't want to move on, but the eyes of woman No. 53 said hurry. "He sure will," Vag called back toward the yellow sweater. She was too busy with No. 53 to hear...
Maybe LIFE slipped for a moment in its role of trying to paint an accurate picture of the American scene. After all, there's no sex in a Chem lab; and you can't very well show sweater girls studying quantum mechanics...
...sweater-and-skirt-jammed auditorium of Alumnae Hall went simply mad about Wellesley's Junior Show which made its solo appearance Friday evening. Burlesquing everything from "The New Yorker" and Knittin' for Britain to the WAVES and the 11:50 train, this haphazard musical may not stand up under critical scrutiny, but it more than served its purpose of entertainment...